Steve Jobs and Bill Gates - Entrpreneurship
Entrepreneurial Profile
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013
Entrepreneurial Profile
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013
Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ,1955 to his parents Mary Gates, who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II, who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed signs of intelligence and ambition. This school was the first place Bill worked with computers. He and a few other students spent most of their time writing programs for the school computer which was donated to his school and connected via telephone to a computer company (Emdee).These kids formed a group called Lakeside Programmer’s Group in 1968. In the next year, the group got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. where they were selected as programmers. The company agreed to give them royalties on whatever money they made from any of the group’s programs. Due to this deal, the group became a legal business (Paluri). Bill Gates was just 15years old. This action was probably just an early sign that this young man was going to become one of the greatest computer geniuses and a business tycoon. With his intelligence, Bill got into Harvard University. While in school, a newspaper article caught his interest; it was about a computer company named Altair that had made a computer but had no computer language for it. Bill took this opportunity and together with his friend, Steve Ballmer, whom he had met at Harvard, he wrote a computer language and sent it to them. Their idea won Altair over and with this little encouragement, Bill realised that Harvard was not where he was supposed to be; his interests lay in computers and computer programming so he dropped out of Harvard and worked on programs for the Altair Company (Pirates of Silicon Valley). In 1974, Bill
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013
Entrepreneurial Profile
Pirates of Silicon Valley
Andrea Odunze 2nd April 2013
Bill Gates Bill Gates was born William Henry Gates the third on the 28th of October ,1955 to his parents Mary Gates, who was a professor and businesswoman and William Gates II, who was a prominent lawyer of his time (Summers). Bill was enrolled in the prestigious Lakeside School of Seattle in 1967 because he showed signs of intelligence and ambition. This school was the first place Bill worked with computers. He and a few other students spent most of their time writing programs for the school computer which was donated to his school and connected via telephone to a computer company (Emdee).These kids formed a group called Lakeside Programmer’s Group in 1968. In the next year, the group got their first opportunity in Information Sciences Inc. where they were selected as programmers. The company agreed to give them royalties on whatever money they made from any of the group’s programs. Due to this deal, the group became a legal business (Paluri). Bill Gates was just 15years old. This action was probably just an early sign that this young man was going to become one of the greatest computer geniuses and a business tycoon. With his intelligence, Bill got into Harvard University. While in school, a newspaper article caught his interest; it was about a computer company named Altair that had made a computer but had no computer language for it. Bill took this opportunity and together with his friend, Steve Ballmer, whom he had met at Harvard, he wrote a computer language and sent it to them. Their idea won Altair over and with this little encouragement, Bill realised that Harvard was not where he was supposed to be; his interests lay in computers and computer programming so he dropped out of Harvard and worked on programs for the Altair Company (Pirates of Silicon Valley). In 1974, Bill
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